Is the place of birth the same as the place of residence?

Household registration, also known as hukou, is a population management method mainly based on households.

Native place refers to the birthplace of an ancestor recognized by a family and ethnic group. It also refers to some people who have left the birthplace of their ancestors or their hometown, but they or their descendants still trace back to the birthplace of their ancestors or their hometown (that is, ancestral home) as their native place. Native place usually refers to "my place of birth or ancestral home" in modern Chinese.

what's the difference between the domicile and the native place?

1. The domicile place is not necessarily the person's ancestral home or native place, especially in economically developed areas and some new places that started construction after the founding of New China and developed rapidly in modern times. A large number of people's native places are not domicile places, and these people generally migrated from other places according to the distribution of the country at that time in China's planned economy era or immigrated to new places in modern times.

2. Household registration is the register of registered household registration, and the booklet of registered household registration by the government refers to the domicile of a citizen with Chinese nationality before the age of 18, that is, the place where the individual was born (according to the latest geographical division) or the current residence, not the birthplace of his father or mother, nor the birthplace of his grandparents.

3. According to the tradition of China for thousands of years, native place is an expression of ancestral place, which is the difference between household registration and native place. Generally speaking, one's native place is from the paternal line, and some are from the maternal line. Ancestral place refers to the long-term residence of ancestors, divided by region.

what is ancestral home;

ancestral home is the concept of ancestor worship in China traditional culture. Therefore, in tracing and identifying ancestral home, the ancestral home is usually the area where paternal ancestors and grandparents' families have lived for a long time, without referring to the ancestral home of mother or grandfather.

ancestral home refers to the birthplace of an ancestor (traditionally referred to as paternal ancestor) in a certain period recognized by a family group. Some people who have left their ancestors' birthplace or their hometown, their descendants still trace back to their ancestors' birthplace or their hometown (that is, ancestral home) as their birthplace. In some areas, it is customary to take my grandfather's place of origin as my ancestral home, while in some areas, such as Taiwan Province Province, most people take the place where their ancestors lived in the mainland more than ten generations ago as their ancestral home, while overseas Chinese take the place where their paternal ancestors lived in China as their ancestral home. Ancestral place is a traditional cultural concept of the Han nationality, which can refer to grandfather's birthplace or more distant ancestor's birthplace, that is, the place where a paternal ancestor of a family once lived for a long time.

Legal basis

Regulations of the People's Republic of China on Registration of Household Registration

Article 4 The household registration authority shall set up a household registration book.

in cities, water and towns with police stations, each household should be issued with a household registration book.

rural cooperatives are issued household registration books; Household registration books are not issued to accounts outside cooperatives.

the items registered in the household registration book and household registration book have the effect of proving citizenship.